A story is told about a soldier who was finally co...

第1题

A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco. "Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've a favor to ask. I have a friend. I'd like to bring him home with me. " "Sure," they replied, "we’d love to meet him.” "There’s something you should know,” the son continued, "he was injured pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mine(地雷) and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to live with us. " "We’re sorry to hear that, son. But, maybe we can help him find somewhere to live." "Ho, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us.” "Son," said the father, “you don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden to us. We have our own lives to live, and we can’t let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live on his own. At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building. The police believed he had killed himself. The grief-stricken (痛恶欲绝) parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue ( 太平间 ) to identify the body of their son. They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn’t know, their son had only one arm and one leg. The soldier called his parents from San Francisco _________ A. before going to fight in Vietnam

B. after having fought in Vietnam

C. after writing a letter to his friend

D. before making his mind to stay in the army

The soldier told his parents that he wanted them to _________.A.meet his friend in the army

B.find a place for his wounded friend to live in

C.move to San Francisco

D.agree to his plan that he would bring his wounded friend home and live with them

His father considered his plan _________A.unacceptable

B.wise

C.useful

D.selfish

The son killed himself because _________A.he was unable to find a job

B.his father’s words greatly disappointed him and he didn’t want to be a burden to his parent

C.his parents didn't agree to his plan

D.he had lost everything in Vietnam

A few days later _________A.the parents were told by the police that their son had been sent to prison

B.the parents were told by the police that their son had killed himself

C.the parents heard something more from their son

D.the parents received a telegram from the San Francisco police

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第2题

He told a story about his sister who was in a sad ______ when she was ill and had no money.

A．plight

B．polarization

C．plague

D．pigment

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第3题

He told a story about his sister who was in a sad ______ when she was ill and had no money.

A．plight

B．polarization

C．plague

D．pigment

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第4题

He told a story about his sister who was in a sad ______ when she was ill and had no money.

A．plight

B．polarization

C．plague

D．pigment

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第5题

He told a story about his sister who was in a sad______when she was ill and had no money.

A．plight

B．polarization

C．plague

D．pigment

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第6题

He told a story about his sister who was in a sad______when she was ill and had no money.

A．plight

B．polarization

C．plague

D．pigment

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第7题

We have to realize how old, how very old, we are. Nations are classified as "aged" when they have 7 percent or more of their people aged 65 or above, and by about 1970 every one of the advanced countries had become like this. Of the really ancient societies, with over 13 percent above 65, all are in Northwestern Europe. We know that we are getting even older, and that the nearer a society approximates to zero population growth, the older its population is likely to be—at least, for any future that concerns us now.

To these now familiar facts a number of further facts may be added, some of them only recently recognized. There is the apparent paradox that the effective cause of the high proportion of the old is births rather than death. There is the economic principle that the dependency ratio—the degree to which those who cannot earn depend for a living on those who can—is more advantageous in older societies like ours than in the younger societies of the developing world, because lots of dependent babies are more of a liability than numbers of the inactive aged. There is the appreciation of the historical truth that the aging of advanced societies has been a sudden change.

If "revolution" is a rapid resettlement of the social structure, and if the age composition of the society counts as a very important aspect of that social structure, then there has been a social revolution in European and particularly Western European society within the lifetime of everyone over 50.@Taken together, these things have implications which are only beginning to be acknowledged. These facts and circumstances had a leading position at a world gather about aging as a challenge to science and to policy, held at Vichy in France.

There is often resistance to the idea that it is because the birth rate fell earlier in Western and Northwestern Europe than elsewhere, rather than because of any change in the death rate, that we have grown so old. But this is what elementary demography makes clear. Long life is altering our society, of course, but in experiential terms. We have among us a very much greater experience of continued living than any society that has preceded us anywhere, and this will continue. But too much of that lengthening experience, even in the wealthy West, will be experience of poverty and neglect, unless we do something about it.

If you are in your thirties, you ought to be aware that you can expect to live nearly one third of the rest of your life after the age of 60. The older you are now, the greater this proportion will be, and greater still if you are a woman.

From paragraph 1, we know that really aged societies may include

A．all developed nations without exception.

B．every one of Western European countries.

C．countries in Northwestern Europe.

D．some European and American nations.

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